Kingsley Wood

Kingsley Wood (19 August 1881-21 September 1943) was the British Chancellor of the Exchequer from 12 May 1940 to 21 September 1943, succeeding John Simon and preceding John Anderson.

Biography
Kingsley Wood was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1881, and he qualified as a solicitor in 1903. He was elected to Parliament for the Conservative Party to represent West Woolwich in 1918, and he became Postmaster-General in 1931. In 1933, he joined the Cabinet, and he held a number of posts before becoming Winston Churchill's Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1940. In this post, which he held until hsi death, he was closely involved in the discussions on how to finance the war effort. When the Beveridge Report was published, he was influential in the Cabinet's resolution that it should not be fully implemented until after the war. He died in office in 1943.